Taking a screenshot (within X)

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How can I take a screenshot in X.org?

I am unsure if the Print Screen button will "just work" and I don't know how I would go about testing it.

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The most commonly used Linux application for taking screen-shots is called scrot

You can install it with for Debian:

sudo apt-get install scrot

Or for Arch:

sudo pacman -S scrot

A screenshot is taken by typing:

scrot output-file.png

If you want to bind scrot to the print screen key then that will need to be controlled by your window manager.

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How to take a screenshot in LXDE using scrot and the Print Screen button on the keyboard

Edit ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml with your favorite text editor and then, within the existing <keyboard> element, add the following lines:

<keybind key="Print">
  <action name="Execute">
    <command>scrot</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

Use the openbox --reconfigure command to use the new settings.

Following the restart, a screenshot will be created in your /home/pi directory every time you press the Print Screen button.

There's also a GUI tool called obkey which can make editing the Openbox config file easier. You can find it here.

Screenshot in Unity/Ubuntu within VirtualBox

You may take a screenshot with VirtualBox's built-in screenshot capability, either through pressing RightCtrl+E (or LeftCmd+E on Mac), which will open up a save file window on the host), or with

$ VBoxManage controlvm vmname screenshotpng screenshot.png

from the command line of the host, where vmname is the name of the virtual machine and screenshot.png is the name of the PNG image you'd like to create.

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